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Remembering the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Anja — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:01:00 +0000

Today, I celebrate my birthday. Well, not really. I should call it my re-birthday. You see, I grew up in East Berlin, and today twenty years have passed since the Fall of the Berlin Wall. I was 8 years old, living in Moscow on that day. Little did I know that it would not only [...]

Bailouts are immoral

Anja — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:47:19 +0000

(Let us set aside the many ways in which goverment interference, through onerous regulations, stifles the profit making ability of businesses.) The essential argument to make against business bailouts is this: Bailing out enterprises like GM means forcing the consumer, i.e. the tax payer, to pay money to GM without receiving anything in return. The [...]

Against the Children

Anja — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:28:42 +0000

Two very chilling items from the environmentalist camp Down Under, proving that environmentalism ultimately seeks to sacrifice humans for the sake of nature: An obstetrics (!) professor writes in the Medical Journal of Australia: Of course, there is an even more potent strategy humans should adopt to modify climate change through their own activities — [...]

New Feature! Ask A Philosopher

Anja — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:22:34 +0000

In an effort to overcome my writer’s block and create more content, I have added a new feature to my site. Do you you have a question, an issue or a problem that you, my treasured readers, would like me to discuss? Fear not, submit them, and a philosopher (that’s me) will come to the [...]

Put Into Perspective

Anja — Thu, 22 May 2008 04:43:33 +0000

Generally, it seems that perspective is often lost on people. For example, sure enough, gasoline prices have gone up. Paying $4 at the pump for a gallon of joyride fuel hurts especially when one considers that it was so much cheaper only so very recently. But it helps to see the bigger picture.

Earth Day Nonsense

Anja — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:39:35 +0000

The first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970. It was the result of the alarm bells of the environmental doom and gloom movement going off nonstop. As Ronald Bailey observes,

Earth Day 1970 provoked a torrent of apocalyptic predictions.

Drug Prohibition is Immoral

Anja — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 04:46:40 +0000

Jacob Sullum reports on the Atlasphere that: The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that drug offenders account for about 25 percent of local jail inmates, 21 percent of state prisoners and 55 percent of federal prisoners. Since 1980 the number of drug offenders in state prisons has increased by 1,200 percent, more than four times the increase in violent offenders. ...

Does this remind you of something?

Anja — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 15:08:14 +0000

Venezuela is slated to vote on profound constitutional reforms in December, among them abolition of presidential term limits.

Trade Expansion helps the American Worker

Anja — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:30:36 +0000

Who knew? Well, most free market economists argue that. The Cato Institute's Daniel Griswold has published a new study confirming this cherished belief:

Checkmate, One Hopes.

Anja — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:53:43 +0000

Ex World Champion Chess master Garry Kasparov has decided to run for President in Russia in March of 2008. He is heading a coalition called "The Other Russia", which is pushing for more substantial democratic change to Russia.